The Milwaukee Bucks media relations staff passed along some quotes from Quincy Pondexter after his workout with the team. First are Quicy's followed by Milwaukee General Manager Billy McKinney.

Pondexter

On being a gritty player...
"I think that describes Coach Skiles' type of play too. Every time you come on the basketball court, you have to come out and compete at 110 percent and that's something I've believed in since I was a kid and that's something I'm going to contribute to whatever organization takes me next week."

On matching up with Damion James...
"That's a good match up. He's a tremendous player. He's really talented, he has good size and we're both old, grizzly veterans. We're two seniors, we've seen each other in some other workouts and we've been following each other's careers since we were in grade school. So it was fun to come out here and compete against him again."

On his hopes for draft night...
"I'm trying not to think about it too much but there's no choice. You get bugged with it a lot and I'm just real anxious to see where I end up, what city I'll be living in next year and the teammates I'll have. It's something I've been dreaming of since I was a kid and it's just a real blessing that it's only around the corner."

On breaking a lot of Marquette fans' hearts with his play in the NCAA tournament...
"I heard that from the time I got off the plane yesterday and I told them 'Hey, if it wasn't for that I might not be here in your city working out for the Milwaukee Bucks'. But I'm sorry for making that shot. Even Lazar Hayward admits it was a lucky shot but hey, he should have double-teamed me. They could have tried a little bit better but Lazar said he went to double-team and I went the other way. It was a great shot, a shot that no one would forget."

On what position he'll play in the NBA...
"I'm going to be a small forward in the NBA, I'm going to be a shooting guard in the NBA. At Washington I had to change my game a little bit, I had to play some four because of how our team was made, our look of our team and in order to win games. So when I get to the NBA it's going to be my comfortable position, my natural position as a wing player. I'm going to compete as hard as I can and hopefully win a lot of championships."

On how his shot is coming...
"It's a lot better than a lot of people think. Just because I didn't take many threes didn't mean I couldn't shoot threes in college. It's coming along great. It kind of surprises people that haven't really seen me play in a workout setting like this. It needs work still. I'm not a Ray Allen-type shooter but I'm pretty decent. I want to get to be able to consistently knock down that three-point shot."

On Skiles liking players like Luc Richard Mbah a Moute who play tough defense...
"Mbah a Moute is a tremendous player. He works extremely hard on the floor and those defensive players, they seem to stick around the league a lot more than the offensive players and it's a lot easier to get a role on the team. I think when you play defense, you win games, you're able to contribute in so many ways that's bigger than just going out and scoring."

Billy McKinney - Bucks Director of Scouting

Opening statement...
"Speaking of the draft, before I comment on our workout today, yesterday we received a phone call from a couple of agents and a couple of teams saying that we had promised a player that we're going to draft him at 15. One of the first things I wanted to do today was to address that just to say that we haven't made any promises to anybody about us taking them at 15. Last year, when we had the 10th pick, there was a lot of uncertainty about the pick. We did not make a guarantee to anybody at 10 last year and certainly with the complexity of the draft this year, we haven't made a promise to anybody at 15. So I wanted to, in case any of you became aware of that, I wanted you to know that up front.
We had several calls from agents and a couple teams as well and we thought it was important that we address it not only with them but we address it publicly, so I wanted to take the opportunity to do so today."

On the uncertainty with last year's draft because Brandon Jennings didn't have a promise...
"Well absolutely and I can recall years ago when I was the GM with the Pistons, I knew there was a player we were going to take with the 10th pick in the draft. I knew his agent very well, I also knew that teams were trying to move up to take this particular player and I couldn't even tell his agent that I was going to take him. I didn't want to disrupt our plan so we haven't made that promise to anybody in this draft. It's a wide-open draft for us. We had a good group of guys in today, we had six players in. Three of those six players will probably be first round picks today in this year's draft. Quincy Pondexter out of Washington, Damion James of the University of Texas and Devin Ebanks out of West Virginia, those are the guys that will probably go in the first round that came in to work out for us today."

On Devin Ebanks and Quincy Pondexter...
"Yeah, I'll talk about Ebanks, a sophomore out of West Virginia. He missed an early portion of this year I believe due to some academic issues, but he's a very talented small forward. He's a guy that can handle the ball out on the floor, he needs to improve his shooting a little bit, but I think one of his best assets, he does a really good job of defending on the perimeter and some of the games that I watched him play this year, I saw him defend point guards out on the floor. He's long, he's agile, he's got a great feel for the game. Pondexter, on the other hand, he reminds me of a former Buck and a former player that I used to work with in Seattle, Ruben Patterson. He's just has a pit bull mentality. When he gets out there on the court, he comes at you, he grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until after the game is over and sometimes when the game is over, he still has a hold of you."

On if Pondexter is more of a forward than a guard...
"Absolutely. The one thing that I would say, all those players, when I look at James and Ebanks and Pondexter, the one thing that they have to do to improve their chances of being an effective small forward is to handle the ball a little bit better. But when you talk about size, 6'6" is a great size. They can defend shooting guards as well as small forwards."

On the quality of small forwards in the draft...
"It's more of a forwards draft, last year it was point guards, and now you've got a really good set of small forwards and power forwards in the draft this year. So we're looking at all the possibilities of players that could be there, not only at 15, but some of these guys could possibly fall into the second round. Every year one of the things you hear from NBA executives is it's not a deep draft. Because of the amount of underclassmen that declared for the draft this year, it's going to be a very good draft and we really feel confident that we're going to get a good player not only at 15 but at 37 and 47."

On the importance of the Bucks picks...
"People want to talk to us about giving up the 15th pick and right now, because we're not sure who's going to be there, we want to hold on to that pick to see who's going to be there. If there's one of the players in our group range that will be there that we'd like to take. That is unless a team makes us an offer so great that a veteran player was included that would help us and we could move down in the draft, but we like where we are at 15 and certainly feel like we're going to get a good player at 37 and 47."